Mar
5

Ecofeminism: A Poetry Reading

With Destiny Hemphill. A poetry reading themed around ecofeminism hosted by the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke, co-sponsored by the Art and the (De)Colonial Garden working group and the Strange Life working group. Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse - 114 S. Buchanan Blvd, free and open to the public.

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Feb
29

Multifunction: Creativity Across Domains

This is a panel discussion for members of the UNC-Chapel Hill community in connection with Terrance Hayes’s visit as the 2024 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence. If you’re a UNC person, please join me, Gaby Calvocoressi, Skylar Gudasz (singer and songwriter), Josh Hockensmith (visual artist), and Terrance at the Donovan Lounge in Greenlaw Hall for a discussion about our creative practices!

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Mar
28
to Mar 31

Virginia Beall Ball Lecture in Contemporary Poetry and Panel during the Beall Poetry Festival

These two events are part of the Beall Poetry Festival. First, I’ll be giving a lecture on contemporary poetry at 3:30pm on Thursday, March 30; next, I’ll be a part of a panel discussion with Shane McCrae, A. Van Jordan, and Ada Limon, led by Chloe Honum, at 3:30pm on Friday, March 31. Events are free and open to the public, and the full schedule is here.

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Mar
11

AWP Panel: Academic Worker Solidarity in Creative Writing

AWP Panel: Academic Worker Solidarity in Creative Writing
Room 447-448, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
The times listed are in PST.

With Natalie Shapero, Lindsay Turner, and Grace Talusan.

In a form characterized by compression, what does it mean to write at length? Can such works cleave to standards of precision and concision as they extend beyond the standard one-pager? What kinds of world-building, expansiveness of thought, or complexity of experience might be achieved in multipage or even book-length poems? Panelists will read briefly from their work, discuss both formal and free-verse approaches to writing long poems, and offer strategies for generating and sustaining them.

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Mar
9

AWP Panel: The Pocket Epic - Poets Writing at Length

AWP Panel: The Pocket Epic - Poets Writing at Length
Room 447-448, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
The time listed is in PST.

With Melissa Crowe, Meg Day, and Paisley Rekdal.

In a form characterized by compression, what does it mean to write at length? Can such works cleave to standards of precision and concision as they extend beyond the standard one-pager? What kinds of world-building, expansiveness of thought, or complexity of experience might be achieved in multipage or even book-length poems? Panelists will read briefly from their work, discuss both formal and free-verse approaches to writing long poems, and offer strategies for generating and sustaining them.

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Oct
6

Dunkerley Dialogues at Skidmore College

Hosted by the The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College: “Join us on Thursday, October 6, at 6 pm, for a Dunkerley Dialogue with poet Sumita Chakraborty and Skidmore Associate Professor of English Maggie Greaves. Greaves, a co-curator for Parallax: Framing the Cosmos, will be in discussion with Chakraborty about the poet’s creative and scholarly work on the intersections of outer space, ecology, race, and gender. Dunkerley Dialogues pair Skidmore professors with artists in a conversation format, which is often a catalyst for new connections and understandings across disciplines, and can spark new ideas for all participants.” Free and open to the public!

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Jun
9

Five Bodies Reading: Sumita Chakraborty & Karen McCarthy Wolf

As part of the Five Bodies Series—a collaboration between the Critical Poetics Research Group at Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham Contemporary—I will be giving a reading with Karen McCarthy Wolf. While this reading is closed to participants in the Five Bodies program, you can find more information about this workshop and the series more broadly here (for our reading) and here (for the series as a whole). Please note all times on those linked sites are in BST; I am listing the times here in EST. Free and open to the public.

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Jun
8

Five Bodies Workshop: How to Care for the Dead with Sumita Chakraborty

As part of the Five Bodies Series—a collaboration between the Critical Poetics Research Group at Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham Contemporary—I’m offering a workshop titled How to Care for the Dead. While this workshop is closed to participants in the Five Bodies program, you can find more information about this workshop and the series more broadly here (for my workshop) and here (for the series as a whole). Please note all times on those linked sites are in BST; I am listing the times here in EST.

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Mar
23
to Mar 26

Writing the Wound: How to Write Trauma Ethically / AWP 2022

With Roxane Gay, Maggie Smith, Saeed Jones, and Aubrey Hirsch.

Event description:

Our wounds are the openings to our deepest selves. The craving for connection in these soft and tender places and the instinct to seek out witnesses to our scars are universal. But how can we ensure we are writing toward healing, rather than re-traumatization? And how do we write ethically about those who have hurt us? Panelists working in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and graphic storytelling will discuss their personal experiences and best practice principles for writing trauma ethically.

Too often writers feel pressured to divulge trauma in their writing, without thought to how these disclosures can re-open wounds and compound the damage they’ve caused. This is especially true for writers with marginalized identities. This thoughtful and diverse group of writers working in multiple genres will discuss how to resist the pressure to write in a way that increases harm, and how to center personal ethics and your own healing in your written explorations.

Details to come (note that for now the dates of this event are the dates of AWP; will udpate when the conference schedule is posted).

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Mar
23
to Mar 26

An Alice James Quartet / AWP 2022

I’ll be reading with Jeffrey Thomson, Rosebud Ben-Oni, and Shara McCallum, moderated and introduced by editor extraordinaire Carey Salerno. Details to come (note that for now the dates of this event are the dates of AWP; will udpate when the conference schedule is posted).

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